Staff Pick: Written on the Body

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson is a love story with a difference.

"Why is loss the measure of love?"

The pursuit of pleasure, sensuality and all the clichés.

"Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain light; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there"

A brilliant book on the most human of conditions. The truth, the lies, the sorrow and joy.

Each beautiful sentence cascades into the next, it’s joyous, it’s poetic, it’s funny and it’s wonderful. A brutally honest book on that phenomena we call love.

"What then kills love? Only this: neglect"

Jeanette Winterson reminds us that love is so much more.

Happy St Valentine’s Day!

Copies of Written on the Body are available in our libraries, and also as an eBook on Borrowbox.
 

Paul Flanagan, Marino Library